Sounds like a software issue since they heat themselves to be able to run in the first place. You cant drive up and plug in and be too cold. You can be sitting outside unused for hours and be too cold but again they heat themselves so being a known issue .......It’s not an issue that one person had. It’s a limitation with lithium ion batteries.
>It takes years to develop new car models, can you imagine how long they have been working on EV? It doesn't happen overnight.
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Speaking as a once-upon-a-time student of electrical phenomena and batteries:
There is no such thing as a REAL “quick charge” battery, and there never will be. Physics !
Therefore, there would be two ways to make electric vehicles practical for non-urban travel:
Quick-change batteries with an extensive network of battery-change stations,
or,
by placing a continuous supply of electricity into the roads, driveways, parking lots, trails, etc. where the vehicles could go.
The very FACT that neither is being given serious consideration tells me that the main purpose of forcing EV’s on the American Public is to LIMIT & RESTRICT OUR ABILITY TO MOVE-ABOUT AT WILL !
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A five-minute charging lithium-ion battery was considered to be impossible,” he said. “But we are not releasing a lab prototype, we are releasing engineering samples from a mass production line. This demonstrates it is feasible and it’s commercially ready.”
Existing Li-ion batteries use graphite as one electrode, into which the lithium ions are pushed to store charge. But when these are rapidly charged, the ions get congested and can turn into metal and short circuit the battery.
The StoreDot battery replaces graphite with semiconductor nanoparticles into which ions can pass more quickly and easily. These nanoparticles are currently based on germanium, which is water soluble and easier to handle in manufacturing. But StoreDot’s plan is to use silicon, which is much cheaper, and it expects these prototypes later this year. Myersdorf said the cost would be the same as existing Li-ion batteries.
“The bottleneck to extra-fast charging is no longer the battery,” he said. Now the charging stations and grids that supply them need to be upgraded,
I don't know my son's neighbor.Damn your friend drives a lot
With its 8year 100K battery warrantee
>It takes years to develop new car models, can you imagine how long they have been working on EV? It doesn't happen overnight.
I'd guess not very many; nationwide EV sales are at about 6% but I have no idea if its higher in the blizzard areas. CA is obviously the highest but I think thats like 14%. Don't quote me on those numbers. But there are people every year that get stranded in an ICE vehicle and die because the exhaust gets clogged and they die from CO poisoning. Range, charging, and other aspects were hugely affected by the cold weather, but thats true for even for ICE cars since they use a battery to at least start. As anyone who's tried to cold crank a tractor in 0F weather can attest, it may not start the car.I wonder how many of the dead frozen folks trapped on the road in the blizzard were in an EV - and if that would have made any difference.
Whiney bitches. Regular cars do that too. Regardless of the handle type.I guess EVs are fine for the RGV but...
Furious Tesla owners share videos of their cars failing
Rachel Modestino, a meteorologist from Canada, was locked out of her Tesla on December 23 after a massive winter storm last week.www.dailymail.co.uk
it has been over valued for a long time. Glad it’s finally coming back to reality.According to the WSJ EV makers don't market in cold climate areas. Please don't ask for the reference. On a brighter note I replaced the battery in my HP portable today for less than $30. It still doesn't run a long time unplugged and takes a long time to charge. But it didn't cost a ton for a battery. Oh, Tesla stock isn't doing very well.
I was just thinking that this morning when I saw an article showing how Tesla's market cap used to be bigger than EVERY other automaker in the world. How does that make sense for a car company that only just now started making modest profits, making 100k cars a year is valued more than Ford, GM, Chrysler, Hyundai, Honda, Toyota, Ferrari, and the rest of them COMBINED? Everyone's pointing at teslas 66% stock drop saying the company is done. I think now that they're seen as a regular car company the frenzied capital dump into their stock is no longer the stock market meme. Some got very rich pumping and dumping that, now they're onto the next pump and dump scheme.it has been over valued for a long time. Glad it’s finally coming back to reality.